Associate Director of Nursing

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust and North Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

Do you have the energy, experience and passion to make a real difference?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Director of Nursing at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The Associate Director of Nursing will be part of a triumvirate team and will be jointly accountable for developing the direction of the collaboratives in partnership with the Clinical Chair and Service Manager, providing clinical expertise. This post holder will also be part of a clinical board structure with the remit of developing the long and short term aims of the services.

Main duties of the job

The triumvirate team is supported by senior multi-professional teams at directorate level comprising of a Clinical Director, management support and Clinical Matron for each of the service groups.

As a key professional leader the Associate Director of Nursing will provide operational direction to all nurses within the collaboratives, be responsible for providing high quality patient focused care, ensuring robust risk management and governance arrangements are in place.

The post holder will be an integral part of the trust senior nursing team working with other Associate Directors of Nursing, Deputy Chief Nurses and Chief Nursing Officer.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills to drive towards developing a safety culture at South Tees.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions

Your Leadership Impact

Leading your Team to Success

Leading Into the Future

Service Improvement for Beginners

Developing your Service Improvement Skills

Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust values and behaviours

Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills

Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Date posted

05 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£74,290 to £85,601 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

328-CP-6615278-LJ

Job locations

The James Cook University Hospital

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Details of the full job description and person specification are available to view when you click to apply for the vacancy and click on the about this job link and the documents will be attached at the bottom of the screen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse
Management / leadership qualification or equivalent experience
Teaching and assessing qualification
Master's degree or equivalent experience

Knowledge

Essential

Understanding of topical nursing issues, local, regionally and nationally
Demonstrable understanding and experience of management, and handling of data and information
Budgetary management experience Understanding and experience of Clinical and Quality Governance
Proven experience of leading and delivering the patient safety agenda

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse
Management / leadership qualification or equivalent experience
Teaching and assessing qualification
Master's degree or equivalent experience

Knowledge

Essential

Understanding of topical nursing issues, local, regionally and nationally
Demonstrable understanding and experience of management, and handling of data and information
Budgetary management experience Understanding and experience of Clinical and Quality Governance
Proven experience of leading and delivering the patient safety agenda

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).